The Crushes That Bind

by TheSuperTransformerFan

The Arrival

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The Mane six, minus Starlight Glimmer, Rainbow Dash & Spike were already up in the air in a hot air balloon. Coming with them with their friends from Hope Hollow, and Windrider and Stormy Flare...Spitfire’s mother.

Applejack breathed in the fresh flight air as she looked out one side of the balloon. “Aah!” She sighed. “Land sakes! I didn’t know Rainbow, Starlight and Spike chose this place for their wedding! I think they made the right call, don’t y’all think?”

Fluttershy looked out, and felt nervous and was starting to board on air sick. “Umm....Applejack?” She asked scared. “I don’t think I like flying up high like this!” She started to barf.

Rarity took notice and got out a puke bag for her. “If you need to throw up, do it in here!” She said. Fluttershy barfed in the bag, which made everyone groan in disgust at the sight of her doing so.

“I am so excited! Are you so excited? I am so excited!” Pinkie Pie shouted in glee. “Las Pegasus is a wild vacation spot! It's just one big party!” she got out her party cannon and fired a huge beam of confetti and it landed on her friends and herself. Pinkie looked around and realized she goofed up. “Whoops.”

Barley was excited as she and her brother looked out. “I can’t believe we’re actually coming here!” She squealed in amazement. “All those lights and sounds, not to mention the crowds... Oh, just the thought of it is just extraordinary!”

“And considering it’s where Rainbow Dash is getting married, Don’t cha know?” Petunia chimed in as well.

“I know Las Pegasus doesn't seem like anypony’s cup of tea...sometimes...” Twilight said. “But, Sunny and I have total faith we wouldn't all have been called unless you were the perfect ponies for coming to the wedding.”

“And it’s to your Star pupil and the hero of the Crystal Empire!” Sunny joined in while the others “Mmmm....hmmmmmmed.”

“Right!” Twilight said, nervous and excited as she did her deep breathing technique she learned from Cadence. They all arrived at the station for Las Pegasus. One by one, Everypony got off.

Twilight breathed in the excitement for the soon to be coming moment! “Ah, Las Pegasus!” She said. “Here we are! It’s not entirely as bad as we thought, right?”

The others looked around and smiled at what they were seeing. There were ponies running around in excitement, riding in rides...it was chaos! But, it was the good kind of chaos! “Probably not as bad as we think.” Applejack said as she broke the silence.

“It’s worse!” Fluttershy said in fear, as she saw the excitement whizzing by her and Applejack.

Twilight turned to them in shock. “WHAT?!”

“PSYCHE!” Applejack and Fluttershy said, jokingly as the giggled. Twilight did a “seriously?!” Face at them, as they all went inside the Las Pegasus hotel.

The barrel twins rushed in and were ECSTATIC at how the place looked from the inside! “This place is AWESOME!” Barley said as she and Pickle were amazed by everything they just saw going on in the main hotel lobby!

“I know!” Pickle chimed in. “This place seems a lot more suited to you or even Rainbow Dash.” He said to Pinkie.

“It’s just one big party for EVERYBODY!” Pinkie shouted in glee! “I can’t wait for it to never end! WHOO HOO!”

“Wow!” Mrs. Hoofington said as she and her husband saw the hotel lobby and how things were going on around. “This place is paradise!”

“I know!” Mr. Hoofington said. “It makes Manehattan look like a cheap thrift store!”

“Oh my gosh!” Kerfluffle said. “I’ve never been here before! And already, this place is like a carnival!”

“It’s so wonderful!” Stormy Flare said as she saw how extravagant it was.

“I know!” Windrider said as well. “It’s everything we ever wished for!” He held his fiancé close to him as they both nuzzled lovingly.

“Golly, this is great!” Cozy said in excitement. “This place is so much better than the Crystal Empire! This mare dressed like Cleopatra gave me a coupon, a 99 cent steak and lobster dinner. Huh?” She showed her coupon for everyone to see.

Fluttershy gasped as she started to barf when she heard “lobster dinner”, and Applejack and Torque gasped. “Cozy, you don’t eat seafood!” Torque started to object.

“Well, I know I don’t!” Cozy said jokingly. “All I’m saying is...for 99 cents, I'd eat you.” Everyone was a little frightened. “Okay, I can totally settle down here.” Everypony calmed down. “It's got everything I could ever want, including our friends! Look!“ They all turned to see Rainbow Dash, Starlight Glimmer and Spike all meeting up in the middle with two very familiar ponies that Applejack would know in an instant.

They all heard a voice that didn’t go unnoticed. “Ladies and gentleponies, despite what my competition might say, I know you've come to this fair city to be entertained, and I assure you there is nothing more entertaining than the astounding wedding for Rainbow Miriam Dash!” The voice said.

Applejack gasped and went to the crowd to see who it was. She saw two sales ponies in carnival like outfits and one of them had a moustache. She got an angry look on her face as she knew instantly who they were. “Now, I suppose that might be true if it weren't for the existence, and far superiorly entertaining presence, of the show-stopping exotic animal act that Ponet Fantastique includes as well!” another voice said.

Fluttershy heard the voices too as she and Cozy went over to meet up with their friend. “Those voices sound familiar.” Fluttershy said.

“They sure do.” Applejack said with an angry look and a serious tone. “Flim and Flam.

She went back to normal calm tone with her friends. “I know, I had grudges with them, but that don’t mean I hate them. I mean...I can’t believe that our friends were called up to their hotel to have their wedding.”

“Now, that you mention it, it does sound shocking.” Fluttershy said seriously.

“Also, now that I think about it, I did have lunch with them a few days ago, and I lied when I said I had lunch with Trenderhoof.” Applejack told her friends. “I told them about putting things behind us and they said they were okay with it. We have our weekly lunches here every week. I’m surprised I didn’t tell y’all that earlier.”

Fluttershy and Cozy were shocked that Applejack told them all this! Finally, Cozy spoke up. “What?” She said. “You cheated on Big Mac with them, and you’re having lunch dates with them?”

Applejack was shocked that Cozy asked something entirely random, it had nothing to do with any of that. “We were on a break!” She said with emphasis to the fliers.

“Yeah, sure!” Fluttershy said jokingly, then shifted back to serious. “But, you can’t tell Big Mac about what you’ve been doing with them!”

“Oh, shucks. You’re right.” Applejack said with worry in her voice. “I guess, I got a little wound up in all the grudges, and the lunch dates, and the whole ‘We were on a break’ thing, that I almost let if affect me and Big Mac’s relationship.”

“A little wound up?” Cozy asked. “I thought you should have told Big Mac about your lunches with them,which is probably what you shoulda done. Huh?”

“You think?!” The farm mare said, stressed, which effectively scared the two fliers.

“Applejack, settle!” Cozy said, serious.

“I think we should address the more important question. In this day and age, how dumb are you?” Fluttershy asked. This made Applejack’s face burn red with rage like Sunset Shimmer’s...but she calmed down using Cadence’s technique.

“I think you guys are right.” She said. “I may have grudges that cloud my life, but sometimes, that’s just how life is. Sometimes, things can go right, and sometimes, things can go wrong. I just don’t know how to deal with such things in my life.” She hid her face in her hat, which Fluttershy uncovered it from.

“Oh, Applejack.” She said. “I’m sure it’s probably nothing to worry about. I’m pretty sure they are probably working to get our friends wedding ready, and you don’t want to worry about that. Don’t you?” Applejack started to raise her hoof, but thought twice.

“I know!” Cozy piped up. “Maybe, the Las Pegasus ponies have something in common with what you’re thinking.”

“Oh, shoot.” Applejack said. “You’re right. Now, let’s go meet our friends before they have their wedding.”

“Okay!” Her friends said as they made their way to Flim and Flam, which would lead them to seeing their best friends who were about to be married on the fateful night.

They all saw their friends with the two sales ponies as they met up with them. Flim and Flam were already discussing the plans for their wedding, and their friends were just waiting to spring up and surprise them.

“Okay, girls, you successfully are getting married in Las Pegasus and that's no mean feat!” Flim said as his brother nodded.

“Most ponies might wonder what it feels like.” Flim said in excitement.

“I know!” Starlight said in excitement, with her soulmates smiling and nodding in agreement. At that moment, their friends all showed up and surprised them.

“Oh my God!” Twilight squealed in excitement, which started the lovers as they screamed in surprise. “Hey! Rainbow Dash! Starlight! Spike!” The three lovers all started to panic. “Hey! Hey!! Wow!” Twilight said as they all group hugged them, barely giving them a chance to breathe. They released them from the excruciating, tight hug.

“Hi!” Starlight nervously said, as her lovers smiled and giggled nervously as well.

“What-what are you guys doing here?” Rainbow asked. “We thought we told you not to come.”

“Why are you with Flim and Flam?” Rarity asked, almost about to do a “gag me” gesture.

“Can we cut?” Rainbow asked nervously to the brothers. “Yeah, our friends are here, We’re gonna take a little break.”

“Of course.” Flim said as they took the time to talk to their friends about what was going on.

“What’s going on?” Windrider asked curiously.

“All right, all right.” Rainbow said, as her friends were wanting some answers. She took in a deep breath, and told them. “Flim and Flam are helping us prepare for our wedding.”

“Why?!” Pinkie asked. “What happened?!”

“Well, we wanted it to be extravagant, and we didn’t want you know because we didn’t know how Applejack would react.” Starlight told them. Applejack gasped in shock as she didn’t know that they were worried about how she was going to react to all this until now.

“I'm so sorry.” Applejack said. “I didn’t know you actually cared about me.” She said as she smiled.

“Look, We’re sorry we didn't tell ya.” Rainbow said.

“No-no, that's okay, apparently there's a new policy where we don't have to share everything with everybody.” Moody Root said, grinning in jokingly nice way.

“I knew you guys were not okay with that.“ Barley said, as she pointed to them, which made them blush.

“So you’re finally getting married!” Petunia said as she smiled and tears with joy. “Wow!”

“So, that’s why you all decided to come and surprise us?” Spike asked in surprise.

“Yes.” Mr. Hoofington said as his wife nodded in agreement.

Pinkie was excited as she whipped out her party cannon and fired a huge beam of confetti. “I LOVE LAS PEGASUS!!!” She squealed as they confetti landed on her and friends.

“Pinkie Pie!” Twilight said. “Honestly!”

“Whoops?” Pinkie said as she blushed, which made Twilight’s roll her eyes in amusement.

The Flim Flam brothers were a little shocked as they felt that some of Twilight’s friends were looking at them. So, they shied a little bit. “Hey-hey don't look at us!” Flim said defensively. “My brother and I just work here!” This made everyone smile, giggle, or blush in embarrassment in a funny way.

Later on, in Starlight’s hotel room, Rainbow was just wrapping up some of the last-minute preparations for her big wedding night with Starlight and Spike. Today was the last day they would get to spend their lives alone. Tonight, and going into tomorrow, they would officially start off their lives as a married couple...or a married triple, depending on how you guys would say it.

As Rainbow was fitting her dress for the night, Applejack came in to greet her. “Hi.” She said.

Rainbow took notice and smiled at her. “Hi. Hey, y'know in wedding times this was more than just a simple gown as Rarity would say.” She told her friend.

“Really?” Applejack asked as her ears perked up.

“Yeah, sure! Sure!” Rainbow said, interested in her comment. “They would uh, they would make a work of art with it! They would even transform it into a gown for their little daughters and or flower girls or something. And sometimes, they would even sell it, or have a cocktail with…”

“Rainbow, I uh!” Applejack interrupted in the nick of time. “ I can't believe this is how I'm spending my Friendship problem anniversary here.”

“All right well, I'll take you and Fluttershy someplace nice then.” The wonderbolt said. She then got out a top hat that was filled with tons of money. “Look!” She showed her friend the money. “A guy tipped me a hundred bucks today.”

Applejack looked at the money and was surprised somepony even tipped her that much. “Whoa!” she said in shock.

“Yeah-yeah, Barker was playing blackjack for like an hour and he won $5,000.” Rainbow said in excitement. “Can you believe that? $5,000!”

Just then, Applejack came up with a devilish idea, along with a smirk that came with it. “Y'know, if I won $5,000 I'd join a gym, y'know build up my upper body and hit Trenderhoof from behind with a stick!“ She mimicked a stick movement, and swung it around like Bruce Lee would.

“Wait a minute!” Rainbow said as her ears perked up. “That’s it! Why don’t I do this? I’ll get Starlight and Spike to try on their dresses and suits, book our reservation for our wedding, go to our rehearsal dinner, practice our vows, and finally go to the little chapel at the hotel and get married? It’s that simple!”

Applejack stopped her swinging motion and turned her attention to her fast friend. “Good luck!” she said to her, smiling with excitement and that she was proud of her friend that she was finally getting married.

“Applejack!” Rainbow said sarcastically and calm as well as serious at the same time. “I don't need luck. I have this wedding thought through!” She got up and left her room to go meet up with Starlight and Spike to execute her wedding plan.

“I see.” The farm mare said as she shook her head in sarcasm and proudness. She was happy that friend was getting married, and it was that same fateful night that she would do that. She just had to meet Starlight and Spike, get their dresses and suits fitted, have their rehearsal dinner, rehearse their vows and get married! What could possibly spoil their night of happiness?

However, as Applejack left to meet up with her friends to meet them for their wedding, unbeknownst to the wonderbolt, Windrider and Stormy Flare have some wedding plans for their own as well.


Author's Note

And, that all for this chapter! Twilight and her friends have met up with their friends who are going to get married, and Rainbow Dash is ready to get her night of her wedding ready to go! But, wait! It appears that Windrider and Stormy Flare have some wedding plans of their own! What do you think their plans are? And how will Twilight and the others react to this news? Find out in the next chapter!

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